Allan Meyer

Allan Meyer has been Section Principal Clarinet with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra since 1990. His distinguished career has seen him perform throughout Australia as well as in Massachusetts, USA. He has been guest Principal Clarinet with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (USA).

Allan was born in Perth and studied with WASO’s former Principal Clarinet, Jack Harrison. He graduated from the Conservatorium of Music at the University of WA with a Master of Music and completed post-graduate studies in London with John McCaw, Antony Pay and Jack Brymer.

After seven years with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Allan returned to Perth as Principal Clarinet. In 1997 and 1999, Allan performed and taught at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in the USA. He performed in the Musicorda, Mohawk Trail and Williamstown Chamber Music Festivals. In Perth Allan teaches at the UWA Conservatorium of Music and the WA Academy of Performing Arts.

Allan has appeared as soloist with WASO on many occasions and has premiered works by Australian composers James Ledger, Iain Grandage, Richard Mills and Andrew Schultz. He has also performed with the Escher String Quartet. In 2016 he performed the Mozart Concerto, a work he has performed many times with WASO, as part of a regional tour conducted by his former student Christopher Dragon who is now Resident Conductor of the Colorado Symphony and Music Director of the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra.